NHS: Cost Effectiveness

(asked on 14th July 2015) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health, if the Government will publish the analysis and assumptions which underlie its policy of securing £22 billion of efficiency savings in the NHS.


Answered by
Alistair Burt Portrait
Alistair Burt
This question was answered on 20th July 2015

The National Health Service's own action plan for the next five years – the NHS Five Year Forward View – anticipated a gap between resources and patient needs of nearly £30 billion a year by 2020/21, if there were no further efficiencies. To fill this gap the Five Year Forward View called for an extra £8 billion in funding, which the Government has committed to, along with £22 billion of efficiency savings.

The Department will continue to work together with the health service, our partners and patients to develop key elements of the programme required to achieve the £22 billion of efficiency savings. The precise health budget will be determined by the Spending Review.

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